Spent her childhood in suburban Brisbane. Educated at Queensland Institute of Technology, the University of Wollongong and has undertaken a PhD at the University of Western Sydney. She has two sons.
From 1970 to 1989 she lived in New Zealand where she farmed dairy goats and worked as a visual artist. She has written for performance and made a number of documentary films.
(Source: Angel Mine by Ainslie Yardley. Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2001)
